David McNeely Stauffer papers

Thornton, William, 1759-1828

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William Thornton, architect, inventor, and public official, was born in the Virgin Islands on May 20, 1759, of English parents. He came to the United States in 1787 and became a citizen in 1788. On September 12, 1794 Thornton was appointed one of the commissioners of the new federal city of Washington. He championed his own design for the Capitol and the north wing had been constructed in accordance with his ideas by the time Congress removed to Washington in 1800. In 1802 Congress abolished the...

Beardsley, William A.

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Hall, Charles B.

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Longacre, Orleans.

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Spenceley, J. Winfred.

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Weitenkampf, Frank, 1866-1962

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Frank Weitenkampf (1866-1962) worked for the New York Public Library for 61 years. He started as a page at the Astor Library in 1881, became head of the NYPL Art Department, and served as Curator of Prints from 1921 until his retirement in 1942. Weitenkampf wrote several books and numerous articles on prints, was a print collector, and corresponded with artists and other collectors. Early in his career he used the pseudonym Frank Linston White. From the guide to the Frank Weitenkampf...

Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846

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Engraver; Philadelphia, PA. Born 1773, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Died 1846, Philadelphia. Came to the U.S. in 1794 and went to work for Thackara & Valance of Philadelphia engraving plates for Dobson's ENCYCLOPAEDIA. He also did engravings for the supplemental (1803) volumes of the ENCYCLPOAEDIA, Wilson's AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY, (1808-1814), and Charles Lucien Bonaparte's AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS INHABITING THE UNITED STATES NOT GIVEN BY WILSON...

McNeely, Kate L.

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Dodgson, Campbell, 1867-1948

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Critic and historian of art. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Charles Fairfax Murray, 1909 Jul. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270523921 ...

Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904

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Richter, Emil H., b. 1869.

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Stauffer, David McNeely, 1845-1913

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David McNeely Stauffer was an engineer, author, and antiquarian who devoted much of his time to collecting letters, manuscripts, drawings, etc. and studying printers and engravers. He was the author of American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel, 1907. From the description of American engravings - portraits chiefly, 1901. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122516548 David Stauffer was a Philadelphia collector. From the description of Scrapbook, 1749-1763. (Hi...

Halsey, R. T. Haines (Richard Townley Haines), 1865-1942

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R.T. Haines Halsey was an 1886 graduate of Princeton University. He worked on the New York Stock Exchange from 1899 to 1923 when he retired to devote time to the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was a trustee and chairman of the commitee on American Decorative Art at the museum and was instrumental in opening the Wing. He was an avid collector of Americana and wrote many articles linking American history with decorative arts. From the description of Research papers...

Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891

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Historian, author. From the description of Transcriptions of documents, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122583022 Wood engraver, author, editor. From the description of Benson J. Lossing papers, 1861-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576931 From the description of Papers, 1861-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155519295 Benson John Lossing, editor, illustrator, and historian born in New York. Edited the Poughkeepsie Telegraph, Poughk...

Piers, Harry.

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Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895

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Charles Lanman, writer, journalist and amateur painter, was born in Monroe, Michigan, June 15, 1819. He spent much of his career working as a journalist in Monroe and Cincinnati, Ohio. He moved to Washington DC in 1848 and worked as a librarian in various branches of government, including the War Department, the Copyrights Division of the Department of State, the executive library of President Fillmore, and the Interior Department. He wrote several books in his career on topics of travel and wil...

Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918

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Charles Henry Hart was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1847, to Julia Leavey and Samuel Hart. He practiced law for a time, but then decided to devote himself to his interest in American art. He became a noted authority on portraiture, especially the works of Gilbert Stuart. Hart delighted in being able to expose fraudulent attributions. Hart was a noted author, penning a number of books and articles about art. He served as a director for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1882...

Sartain, William, 1843-1924

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Painter; Philadelphia, Pa. Came from a noted family of engravers and painters. From the description of William Sartain autobiographical sketch, 1910. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82921674 ...

Edmonds, John Henry, 1873-

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John Henry Edmonds (1873-1929), son of Michael and Joanna M. L. Fechter Edmonds, was born in Boston, Mass. After graduating from the Boston English High School in 1891, he worked in the city surveyor's office until 1895 and then in the city engineer's office unitl 1907. In that year Frederick Lewis Gay (1856-1916), collector of early New England books and manuscripts, engaged Edmonds as his librarian and research secretary. After Gay's death, Edmonds was curator of his patron's bequest of printe...

Goodspeed, Charles E. (Charles Eliot), 1867-1950

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Charles E. Goodspeed was the founder of several bookstores in Boston and a dealer in rare books and manuscripts. Most of his writings were bibliographical, compiling A treasury of fishing stories and Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Museum of the Salem East India Marine Society, or, The gathering of a virtuoso's collection, both published in 1946. His autobiography, Yankee bookseller, published in 1937, gives a full picture of booksellers, collectors, and authors of his time. From the des...

GAY, ERNEST L.

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Leutze, Emanuel, 1816-1868

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Painter Emanuel Leutze was born in Germany and emigrated to America in his youth. He became well-known regionally for his painting, especially portraits, and returned to Germany to paint and study from 1841 through 1859. He is remembered for historical, patriotic works, exemplified by his best known painting, Washington crossing the Delaware. From the description of Emanuel Leutze letter, ca. 1860-1868. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51851901 ...

Nichols, Frederick B., 1824-1906?

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Conway, William Wright.

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Hollyer, Samuel, 1826-1919

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Parrish, Daniel, Jr.

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Girsch, Charles W.

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Hazelwood, Sumner.

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Littlefield, George Emery, 1844-1915

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George Edwin Little (1844-1915) was born in Nauvoo, Illinois. He was the son of Edwin Sobieski Little and Harriet Amelia Decker. He was part of the first company of Mormon emigrants, lead by Brigham Young, across the plains to the Great Salt Lake Valley arriving October 2, 1847. In 1859, when he was fifteen years old, he became employed by the Pony Express as a rider. His first route lay between Salt Lake City and Rocky Ridge. In 1862 he married Martha Taylor and settled in the Teton Basin in Ea...

Smith, Sidney Lawton, 1845-1929

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Smith was a well known bookplate designer and engraver based in Boston. William Loring Andrews was a book collector, amateur publisher, writer and a founding member of the Grolier Club. He wrote or compiled over twenty books about prints, book collecting, and the book arts with emphasis on the era of George Washington and on New York City. From the description of Letters and engravings related to work commissioned by William Loring Andrews, 1901-1917 (bulk 1901-1905). (Unknown). Worl...

Sill, Howard, 1865-1927.

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De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914

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Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914) was apprenticed to the printer's trade in Newburgh, N.Y. but came to New York City in 1848, where he eventually became a partner in the shop of Francis Hart. On the death of the latter in 1877, De Vinne became possessed of the business eventually known as the De Vinne Press. He was recognized as a master printer and developed a comprehensive knowledge of the history of typography, which he distilled in several publications. He was a founder (1884) and president ...

Perrine, Howland Delano, 1853-

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Jonathan Wright emigrated from England in 1635. From the description of Wright family genealogical research notes, compiled by Howland Delano Perrine, ca. 1893-ca. 1922. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 495545118 ...

Woodbury, John Page, 1827-1910

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Hamlin, Edward B.

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Chapin, John Bassett.

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Munn, Charles Allen, 1859-1924

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Art patron; New York, N.Y. From the description of Charles Allen Munn collection relating to Charles Willson Peale, John Trumbull and Benjamin West, 1788-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122576900 Charles Allen Munn was a member of the Princeton Class of 1881, and publisher and editor of Scientific American. From the description of Charles Allen Munn collection of European World War I photographs, 1914-1918. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id:...

Bates, Albert Carlos, 1865-1954

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Nichols, Charles L. (Charles Lemuel), 1851-1929

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Balch, Vistus, 1799-1884

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Lanborn, Charles.

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Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915

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American author, illustrator, and novelist. From the guide to the Francis Hopkinson Smith Collection, 1883-1915, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Author, painter and engineer. From the description of The arm-chair at the inn and other papers [manuscript] 1896-1910. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647976900 From the description of Tom Grogan [manuscript] 1896. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: ...

Gilles, Walter

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Giles, Charles Hugh.

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Gallaudet, Edward Miner, 1837-1917

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Biographical Note T. H. Gallaudet 1787, Dec. 10 Born, Philadelphia, Pa. 1805 B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1808 M.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1814...

Green, Samuel A. (Samuel Abbott), 1830-1918

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U.S. physician and historian. From the description of Letter, 1868, Feb. 18 : Boston, to Henry B. Dawson. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35089797 ...

Walter, Frances K.

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Pope, A. Winthrop.

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French, Edwin Davis, 1851-1906

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Engraver of New York City and Saranac Lake, New York; best known for his design and engraving of bookplates. From the description of Papers, 1894-[1908?]. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 58664306 Edwin Davis French (1851-1906) was an engraver of silver and copper, famous for the bookplates he designed and engraved. He was interested in artificial languages, especially Volapük and Esperanto, and was active in Volapük societies. From the guide to the Edw...

Warren, Asa Coolidge, 1819-1904

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Clark, Charles E., 1960-

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Marshall, Frank E.

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Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872

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Thomas Buchanan Read, American poet. From the description of Material relating to Thomas Buchanan Read's poem "Sheridan's ride," 1860-1898. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81915003 From the description of Material relating to Thomas Buchanan Read's poem "Sheridan's ride," 1860-1898. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702164946 American poet, painter, and sculptor. From the description of Sheridan's ride : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed, [1865 or...

Slade, Denison R.

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Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1813-1871

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Tuckerman was an American critic, essayist, and poet. From the description of ALS: to Mr. Norton, [no year] Jan 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122648060 American critic, editor, author. From the description of Correspondence and manuscripts, 1842-1864. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122530583 Tuckerman was an American critic, essayist and poet. From the description of Col...

Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921

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John Woolf Jordan, an editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, also had a long association with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He began his life membership in 1864, was secretary of the Council from 1873 to 1879; corresponding secretary from 1874 to 1880; associate librarian from 1885 to 1903, when he became the librarian, an office he held until his death in 1921. From the...

Nelson, William, printmaker.

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Crane, Warren

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Paine, Nathaniel, 1832-1917

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Rollinson, William, 1762-1842

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Epithet: of Add MS 38203 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001391.0x000182 William Rollinson (1762-1842) was an English engraver who emigrated to New York in 1788-89. From the description of William Rollinson diary, 1788-1789. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 774034373 From the guide to the William Rollinson diary, 1788-1789, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archive...

Flagg, Fanny Jewett.

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Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937

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Author and librarian at the New York Public Library in New York City. From the description of Letter, 1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497443 Wilberforce Eames (1855-1937), son of Nelson and Harriet Phoebe (Crane) Eames, was born in Newark, N.J. In 1885, George Henry Moore (1823-1892), superintendent of the Lenox Library in New York City, appointed Eames as his personal assistant. He became a regular member of the library staff in 1888, assistant librarian upon Moore'...

Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826

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Congregational clergyman and geographer of Connecticut and Massachusetts. From the description of Papers, 1783-1826. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58770513 From the description of Account book, 1816-1820. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58770209 Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), a Congregational clergyman, was known as "the father of geography". His lectures on geography included Geography Made Easy (1784), the fir...

Bement, Clarence S. (Clarence Sweet), 1843-1923

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Almon, W. Bruce.

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Darrach, Charles Gobrecht, 1846-

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Charles Gobrecht Darrach worked as a civil engineer in Philadelphia. From the guide to the Topography of the earth, 1914, 1914, (American Philosophical Society) Charles Gobrecht Darrach, one of six children of William and Christiana (Gobrecht) Darrach, was born in Philadelphia in 1846. In 1876 he married Martha Amy Tearne (b. 1856), an Englishwoman, and they had five children: Lydia, Grace, Charles Jr., Walter, and Margery. Darrach worked as a civil engineer and consultant a...

Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858

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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000447.0x0000ac English-American author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Newark, N. J., to A. Hart, 1845 May 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270470954 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Newark, 1845 Sept. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270470989 American author and editor. Fr...

Schlecht, Charles.

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Currier, John J. (John James), 1834-1912

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Mitchell, James T. (James Tyndale), 1834-1915

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Fridenberg, Robert

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Art dealer in New York City. From the description of Robert Fridenberg and Harry MacNeill Bland checklist of New York views, [ca. 1935-1945] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155486529 Robert Fridenberg was a New York City dealer in prints and engravings and a member of the Grolier Club of New York. From the description of Catalogue of the engraved portraits of Franklin : manuscript, [ca. 1922]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79458503 ...